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This 4 page paper explores Sylvia Plath. Despite her short life, Plath made a lasting contribution to the feminist movement. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Sylvia Plath Mad Girl or
Feminist? Research Compiled by 4/2011 Please
Slyvia Plath is regarded as one of the earliest feminist. Interestingly, feminism as a social movement was only beginning at
the time of Plaths death. Women had, of course, been working for equality throughout much of history but the feminist movement per se was relatively new on the scene.
Never-the-less, Plaths writings illuminate many of the concepts voiced by the feminist movement. Female victimization, in particular, was illuminated by these writings. "The Bell Jar" and many
of Plaths other writings target the injustices of the patriarchal society which framed womens existence. Unfortunately, Plath is often thought of
as a mentally unstable individual who happened to write. As Arielle Greenberg (179) observes in "Mad Girls Love Songs" Plath was "thwarted, not helped, by her depression and circumstances.
And now she is also thwarted by her reputation--and the mentality that lives on in the popular imagination". Plath, however, was much more than a "mad girl". She
was, in fact, one of the more influential feminists. Although the feminist movement had yet taken form in its formal sense during her
lifetime, Plath obviously wrote in full recognition of the fact that historically women have been forced into an economic dependence on men. This dependence centered around male authority
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